Moho (Anime Studio) Tutorials

As a beginning animator, I had fun doing this short animation. The lip sync for the snowmen was pretty involved as the four part singing was done separately so each of the parts had a little different timing. So each part had to be lip synced separately. I guess you would not expect the snowmen to sing in perfect timing, LOL. Silent night was a first attempt of me and my daughter to sing 4 part harmony. She sang two parts and I sang two parts. Learned a lot in the process. Used bone angle targeting for the first time.



Rock Music used
"Ready Aim Fire"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.

3d model made with cinema4d with mapping, imported in moho for rotation thanks to smart bones

Created by Alex Belushi. Shared with permission.

Simple demo of how to rotate eyes around a face using only layer order and no masks

This rig uses smart bones to give the animator the ability to open and close the hand





The left hand's rotate bone (LH_rotate) will give the effect of rotation by moving the bones.
The hand was created with simple lines.

Created with bones in Moho Pro 12 which rotate via a parent bone, seen highlighted in red in the following image:



The bones that change the image have a bone strength. They also have the independent angle option on.

Each rotating bone is animated a few seconds forward on the timeline to create the effect. The bones nearest to the pole are shorter to slow the rotation and effect down. These bones have also been set as 'shy' bones to make selecting easier.

The image can be easily changed to any flag, but I've used the Welsh flag here:



This method isn't limited to just waving flags, it can also be used for water effects too!